House Whip James Clyburn’s made this comment in a Tuesday/3 November NBC News interview in which he noted that he previously cited the rise of Hitler while discussing America’s political climate, according to the outlet.
“Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. And he went about the business of discrediting institutions to the point that people bought into” it,” the South Carolina congressman said, according to NBC. “Nobody would have believed it now. But swastikas hung in churches throughout Germany. We had better be very careful.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/james-clyburn-trump-hitler-comparison
Clyburn described the up coming elections with Republicans likely capturing both Houses of Congress as the demise of democracy and likened it to the election of Hitler. The only problem with Clyborn’s analogy is Hitler was never elected to any office in Germany. In the 1932 election for President, Hitler was soundly defeated by the incumbent, Field Marshall Hindenburg. To form a government, Hindenburg APPOINTED Hitler Chancellor and when Hindenburg died in office in August 1934, Hitler seized power, combined the president and chancellor positions into the Fuhrur position, and appointed himself as sole ruler of Germany. The rest is history. Representative Clyburn really ought to learn history before he tries to use it to make his point.
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